Seymour’s Len Greene, Jr. announced Tuesday he wants to challenge state Rep. Theresa Conroy for her seat in the state legislature.
Assuming Greene receives the nod from Republicans, this will be the third time Greene and Conroy have faced off in a state election for the 105th District.
So far, Greene and Conroy are tied with one election win apiece.
The district includes Beacon Falls, Seymour and parts of west Derby.
Both Conroy, a Democrat, and Greene, a Republican, live in Seymour.
Conroy represented the district from 2008 until 2010, when she was defeated by Greene.
Conroy was then elected to the Seymour Board of Selectmen.
Greene held the seat until 2012, when he was defeated by Conroy.
Greene was then elected to the Seymour Board of Selectmen.
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In a prepared statement Tuesday, Greene said residents have been pushing him to run again in order to “bring back sanity” to the state capitol.
A glimpse of Greene’s possible strategy can be found in the prepared statement’s fourth sentence, which ties Conroy to Gov. Dannel Malloy.
Malloy recently posted less-than-stellar poll results.
“When I first ran Dan Malloy claimed that shared sacrifice would pull us out of the $3 billion deficit that we faced due to irresponsible policies enacted by legislators like Theresa Conroy,” according to Greene’s statement. “Four years later we are faced with another $3 billion deficit in spite of the shared sacrifice, which turned out to be more of the same spending and borrowing coupled with the largest tax increase in Connecticut’s history.”
Conroy announced her intention to seek re-election in February.
In recent weeks she has hailed the passage of legislation that requires the mandatory installation of ignition interlock devices for those convicted of drunk driving. She also helped to get “rumble strips” installed in the center of Route 34 near the Derby-Seymour border.
Greene, though, said Conroy and the Democratic majority in Hartford have simply “taxed and spent our state into exhaustion.”
Greene’s press release noted that Richard Demko, a Seymour resident and newcomer to the political scene, will not be seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Conroy.
He is now supporting Greene.
“The best way to get Connecticut back on track is to defeat the Democratic incumbent, who has consistently voted to increase taxes, spending, and borrowing while in office,” Demko is quoted as saying in Greene’s press release.
